Amerithrax

ALL IHFOEHATIOH COOTAIIIED

HEREIU IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 12-16-2008 BY 60324 UC BAW/DK/P.YS

U.S. Department of Justice

Federal Bureau of Investigation

In Reply, Please Refer to
File No.

August 24, 2004

^rter Street

Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702

Dear

Pursuant to the ongoing criminal investigation into the
2001 mailings of letters laced with Bacillus anthracis, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) requests the items,
documents, and/or access listed below. If a point of contact for
an item or document has been identified by one of our
investigators, that point of contact is _ listed with the item or
docum ent . Please contact Special Agent

when the items are available for pickup from USAMRIID.

Any electron microscopy stubs and mi crographs from an y
Ames spore preparations at USAMRIID

Final contract documents from the contract between
USAMRIID and .Du^ay for the production of Ames spores
for aerosol chadlSTges including the protocol actually
used, micrographs, and other documentation (Bruce
Ivins)

Requirements for the production of Standard
Materials in the Bacteriology Divis'ion ~

.eference.

Research Protocols numbered BOl-07, BOO-03, D98-03,
FOO-11, D99-02 for aerosol challenges.

Access to personnel records for the following
employees :

(<

b6

b7C

Travel, leave, and time and attendance records for the
following employees:

■

Laboratory notes, computer files, and other
documentation regarding Ames samples, Ames research and
Ames spo re production _kenL_tiVJ

1 Rriice Tvins.r

Frederick

Knauert (deceased^

Oliver Mil^ esell (deceased) ,
Several of these

individuals are no longer at USAMRIID, but their
documentation was left at USAMRIID.

2

Sincerely,

Inspector in Charge

b6

b7C

Byi

supervisory apeciai Agent

cc:

1 - Addressee

^ -I I .

2 - 279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID
1 - work copy

15i .

3

(h A

- FD-302 (Rev. 10-6-95)

- 1 -

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

ALL IHFORMATIOH COHTAniELi
HEREIH IS UMCLASSiriEI)

DATE 12-16-2008 BY 60324 UC BAW/DK./RYS

pn July 17-19, 2004,

Date of transcription 07 /30/2004

date of birth

Social Security Account Numberl

at l I place of employment, the
United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious
Diseases (USAMRIID) , Fort Detrick, Frederi ck, Maryland. SA

conducted the search

for a nd in ven tory of Bacillus anthracis ( B. a. ) ma intained in
H and

roomsL

of USAMRIID 's Building

SA

Decroit Division, was also present on July 1 / , 2004.

provided the following information wi th resp ect
to items located in the glass-door refrigerator in room
[sample container notations are denoted below in bold ] :

The 1.5 milliliter (mL) vial labeled Ames

1 Bargee's contained ~1 mL of an Ames spore suspension.

b6

b7C

b7F

The 1 liter (L) flask labeled 2003

Bruce Ivins contained -550 mL of an Ames

spore s uspension. The spores were p roduced at Dugway Proving
] and were purified bv IVINS. f

The 0.5 mL vial labeled

DPG spores

Investigation on 07/17/2004 at Frederick, Maryland

b6

b7C

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency;
it and Its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.

cr cr

^ FD-302a (Rev. 10-6-95)

279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID

b6

b7C

Continuation of FD-302 of

■ On 07/17/2004 .Page 2_

DO

b7C

b7F

The 0 ■ 5 mL vial labeled

contained

The 1.25 mL vial labeled Ducr wav Ames spores, 1 x 10^°/mL

contained ~1 mL of a spore suspension. f

indicated that

I I likely received this spore material from IVINS .

FD-302a(Rev. 10-6-95)

#

279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID

Continuation of FD-302 of

, On 07/17/2004 , Page 3

provided no additional i nformation with regard

to the 1 . 5 mL vial labeled

did not recall the

Ames stock used to generate the spores, nor did| |recall the
purpose of the material.

b6

b7C

b7F

b6

b7C

The :j

> mL tube ]
contained

■abeled

1 r~

The small test tube labeled ' I

I I from Bruce Ivins I I

FD-302a (Rev. 10-6-95)

279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID

Continuation of FD-302 of

b6

b7C

■ On 07/17/2004 .Page 4

b6

b7C

b7F

The 1.25 mL vial labeled .

1 contained

Accordina to |

1 this material was

submitted previously to the FBI Repository.

The 250 mL flask labeled ] |

contained

The 1 mL vial labeled

contained
]did not know the origin of

this material, nor the identity of the B.a. strain.

FD-302a (Rev. 10-6-95)

2 7 9 A-WF -2 2 2 9 3 6 “USMCRI ID

b6

b7C

Continuation of FD-302 of

, On 07 / 17 72004 , Page ,

During the inventory of the room
quality control samples related to weeks [

refr igerator ,

of

study were located. The "QC" samples deriv ed from a blind study

identify the materials by B.a. strain.

in the roomf

F ollow ing is a lis t of the eight "QC" samples presen t

On July 21, 2002, SA

viewed information

contained in email exchanges among USAMRIID personnel, to

regarding the ident i
the information froni
itiessaaes indicated t

ties of the

saI

viewed

email

1 computer in room , The

hatl

b6

b7C

b2

b7F

b6

b7C

b7F

FD-302a (Rev. 10-6-95)

279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID

bo

b7C

Continuation of FD-302 of

, On 07/17/2004 ■ Page 6.

1

1. From the information provided, it

b6

was determined that the I

located in the room

b7C

. ^ Ames. According to the email

document ation, p .a. Ames was used during test weeld I and was
coded as [

inventory of room
exchanges r elated to the

No such mater ial was located during the

provid ed a hard copy of the email
I to Sa[

on

The refri gerator in room I [ contained multi ple item s

which, according to I were samples generated by [

I at the reques t of the FBI. Aliquots of
unese maceriaxs were not collectef^-l ~lcorifirmed that the

by

prohuceq by

1 Th e material was ge nerated from an Am es stock provided

and was used for

b7F

b6

b7C

b2

b7F

provided the f ollowing information wi th respect b6

to materials located in the room
container notations are denoted below in bold ] :

[sample

The 50 mL conical tube 1 ad Lot

(Bruce Ivins) from

b7C

1 contained f

gpnprstp.f^ the .qpnrR.q from IVINS '

[indicated that the FBI di d not take this Ames

material dur ing a previous co llection of [ spore materials
stored in the | Additionally, the tube was not
fingerprinted, as were the othe r tubes con taining Ames spore
prepar ations stored by in the room

contained

The 1. 25 m il vial labeledf

of

which Ames stock was used to generate these spores.

J did not recall

Four items were located in the room
room in a box labeled [

items were associated with research conducted by
and personnel working with

] indi cated that the

b6

b7C

b2

b7F

b6

b7C

b7F

]

b6

b7C

FD-302a (Rev. 10-6-95)

279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID

b6

b7C

Continuation of FD-302 of

On 07 / 17 / 2004 , Page

employed at USM CIIID. The 1.25 mL vial labeled [

1 contained 1

The 1.25

mL vial

labeledl 1

contained

1 'me i.A'd mb vial labeledl

containedi

1 A nt tour

identical vials of "B.a. Ames

were present .

believed that the spores identified as 1

land '

Iwere

generated by

The informat ion pr ovide d bvj
of USAMRiID's Building

and

during the searches
was noted on

rooms

inventory log sheets . The inventory log sheets are maintained in
a lA envelope (FD-340) , along with additional documents related
to the USAMRIID search conducted on July 16-23, 2004.

b6

b7

b7

b6

b7C

U hA